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Children's Mid Term Workshops

Elements of the Earth: Art takes Nature as its Model

Clay modelling with Julie Duhy

Friday 16 February 11.30am - 1.00pm

Note: Please only book for one of two workshops happening on the day

Explore the exhibition Landmarks and Lifeforms by Frieda Meaney and Danny Osborne, & think, talk and make in the gallery.

The artists' interests in geology, biology, marine science and zoology, as well as travel and navigation, are presented in this exhibition through painting, print, video installation and sculpture, combining scientific with artistic interpretations of the natural world.

Danny Osborne is fascinated by lava. The primordial material that formed the earth and everything that exists here now, including us!

Frieda Meaney is inspired by the ecosystem. The printed skeletal images of dinosaurs, reptiles and birds, revolving across and layered on the video projection, suggest an evolving world which is constantly changing and adapting to environmental circumstance.

The starting point of the workshop will be for the children to respond to the ideas found in the exhibition, to model their piece of clay into shape.

Cardboard ‘Discovery Boxes’ follow afterwards and will allow the children to fill with many natural elements, along with their clay model if they wish, before being placed around the Gallery space.

By the end, children will have created their very own piece of natural art (Having brought the outside, in!) and will be asked to briefly talk through it at the end of the workshop.

Between Volcanoes & skeletal images of dinosaurs, reptiles and birds, Osborne's images of cooled lava forms, & Meaney's bird, gorilla and human heads- the Children will be endlessly inspired by the awesomeness of the natural World!

About Children’s Workshops at Highlanes Gallery

Workshops are for children aged 5 - 13yrs, and charged at €8 per child, with booking essential.

Workshops at the gallery are process-based and explore basic concepts and ideas with children as they are looking. The emphasis is placed on understanding the ideas surrounding the objects. Making objects forms part of that process but is not the only goal of the workshop.

For further information, please telephone Siobhan and Hilary on T 041-9803311 or email info@highlanes.ie